Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -3
Permanent jobs citing Azure 659 473 402
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 8.28% 13.98% 9.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.65% 52.73% 41.32%
Number of salaries quoted 451 363 281
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,375 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £73,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,383 897 973
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 17.38% 26.51% 22.09%
Number of salaries quoted 958 651 610
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £27,225
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,125 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £45,000 £54,117
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -16.85% +8.23%
75th Percentile £68,353 £61,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,375 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £64,635 £60,000 £62,900
% change year-on-year +7.73% -4.61% -3.23%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 15 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire +2 203 £59,500 +8.18% 116
Essex -2 154 £40,000 +6.67% 71
Cambridgeshire -15 132 £53,000 +57.04% 130
Suffolk +31 80 £34,750 -30.50% 29
Norfolk +1 64 £55,000 +10.00% 37
Bedfordshire -18 25 £37,500 +10.29% 35
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 110 (16.69%) SharePoint
2 53 (8.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (1.52%) WordPress
4 7 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.76%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.46%) IIS
6 3 (0.46%) SAS
7 2 (0.30%) Confluence
7 2 (0.30%) Luigi
8 1 (0.15%) CMS
8 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 48 (7.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.76%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.30%) Infor M3
2 2 (0.30%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.30%) Towers Watson Igloo
3 1 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 207 (31.41%) Microsoft 365
2 121 (18.36%) Entra ID
3 99 (15.02%) Power Platform
4 88 (13.35%) Azure AI
5 73 (11.08%) Azure DevOps
6 70 (10.62%) AWS
7 67 (10.17%) OneDrive
8 36 (5.46%) PowerApps
9 34 (5.16%) Power Automate
10 29 (4.40%) Azure Logic Apps
11 24 (3.64%) Azure Data Factory
11 24 (3.64%) GitHub
12 21 (3.19%) Azure Service Bus
13 20 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
13 20 (3.03%) GCP
14 18 (2.73%) SaaS
15 17 (2.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 16 (2.43%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 16 (2.43%) GitHub Copilot
17 13 (1.97%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 78 (11.84%) Firewall
2 67 (10.17%) DNS
3 53 (8.04%) DHCP
3 53 (8.04%) VPN
4 39 (5.92%) TCP/IP
5 18 (2.73%) Wireless
6 14 (2.12%) MQTT
7 12 (1.82%) VLAN
7 12 (1.82%) WAN
8 11 (1.67%) Network Security
8 11 (1.67%) VoIP
9 10 (1.52%) Internet
9 10 (1.52%) LAN
10 8 (1.21%) PBX
11 7 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.61%) Broadband
12 4 (0.61%) DMZ
12 4 (0.61%) Structured Cabling
13 2 (0.30%) SSL
13 2 (0.30%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (15.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 79 (11.99%) Power BI
3 56 (8.50%) MongoDB
4 37 (5.61%) Tableau
5 30 (4.55%) SQL Server
6 27 (4.10%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (1.67%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.06%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.61%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.61%) Looker
11 4 (0.61%) Milvus
11 4 (0.61%) MySQL
11 4 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.61%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (0.46%) Metadata
12 3 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (3.03%) Git
2 11 (1.67%) JIRA
3 4 (0.61%) MLflow
3 4 (0.61%) Selenium
3 4 (0.61%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.46%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.46%) git-flow
4 3 (0.46%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.30%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.30%) Yeoman
6 1 (0.15%) ERwin
6 1 (0.15%) JMeter
6 1 (0.15%) Postman
6 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.15%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 315 (47.80%) Social Skills
2 61 (9.26%) Finance
3 25 (3.79%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (2.28%) Marketing
5 14 (2.12%) Legal
6 13 (1.97%) Law
6 13 (1.97%) Retail
7 12 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (1.82%) Public Sector
8 11 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.21%) Games
11 6 (0.91%) Advertising
12 5 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.76%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.61%) Music Industry
14 3 (0.46%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.46%) Aviation
14 3 (0.46%) Banking
15 2 (0.30%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 151 (22.91%) Developer
2 114 (17.30%) IT Support
3 105 (15.93%) Analyst
4 82 (12.44%) .NET Developer
5 78 (11.84%) Support Engineer
6 77 (11.68%) IT Engineer
7 74 (11.23%) Junior
8 69 (10.47%) Junior Analyst
8 69 (10.47%) Senior
9 64 (9.71%) IT Support Engineer
10 37 (5.61%) Security Analyst
11 34 (5.16%) Data Analyst
12 33 (5.01%) Lead
13 32 (4.86%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 32 (4.86%) Ethical Hacker
13 32 (4.86%) Junior Data Analyst
13 32 (4.86%) Junior Security Analyst
13 32 (4.86%) Network Engineer
13 32 (4.86%) Senior Developer
14 29 (4.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (18.06%) .NET
2 97 (14.72%) .NET Core
3 78 (11.84%) ASP.NET
4 77 (11.68%) ASP.NET Core
5 62 (9.41%) CSS
6 56 (8.50%) HTML
7 54 (8.19%) RESTful
8 35 (5.31%) Entity Framework
8 35 (5.31%) React
9 30 (4.55%) ML.NET
10 29 (4.40%) Node.js
11 28 (4.25%) Blazor
12 24 (3.64%) Terraform
13 22 (3.34%) AngularJS
14 21 (3.19%) ASP.NET Web API
15 20 (3.03%) Vue
16 19 (2.88%) HTML5 Canvas
16 19 (2.88%) Kafka
16 19 (2.88%) Microsoft Graph
17 18 (2.73%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 41 (6.22%) Onboarding
2 40 (6.07%) Driving Licence
3 32 (4.86%) Cloud Native
3 32 (4.86%) Cyberattack
4 15 (2.28%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (1.67%) Security Posture
7 10 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
8 9 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.06%) CCTV
9 7 (1.06%) iPhone
10 6 (0.91%) Data Structures
10 6 (0.91%) Digital TV
10 6 (0.91%) Legacy Code
10 6 (0.91%) Product Ownership
11 5 (0.76%) BBC
11 5 (0.76%) PKI
11 5 (0.76%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 156 (23.67%) Windows
2 88 (13.35%) Windows Server
3 17 (2.58%) Linux
4 14 (2.12%) Windows Server 2019
5 12 (1.82%) Mac OS
6 10 (1.52%) Android
6 10 (1.52%) Apple iOS
7 8 (1.21%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.30%) Unix
9 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (21.70%) AI
2 141 (21.40%) Cybersecurity
3 120 (18.21%) Agile
4 102 (15.48%) Mentoring
5 97 (14.72%) DevOps
6 82 (12.44%) Business Intelligence
6 82 (12.44%) Problem-Solving
7 81 (12.29%) Full-Stack Development
8 74 (11.23%) CI/CD
8 74 (11.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 56 (8.50%) Machine Learning
10 53 (8.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 44 (6.68%) Roadmaps
12 41 (6.22%) Cloud Security
12 41 (6.22%) Computer Science
13 39 (5.92%) Service Delivery
14 37 (5.61%) User Experience
15 36 (5.46%) Customer Service
16 35 (5.31%) Containerisation
16 35 (5.31%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 205 (31.11%) SQL
2 146 (22.15%) C#
3 107 (16.24%) Python
4 58 (8.80%) PowerShell
5 57 (8.65%) JavaScript
6 40 (6.07%) TypeScript
7 20 (3.03%) PHP
8 11 (1.67%) C++
8 11 (1.67%) Java
9 9 (1.37%) Bicep
10 8 (1.21%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.61%) Bash
11 4 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.61%) Rust
12 3 (0.46%) Ruby
12 3 (0.46%) Scala
13 2 (0.30%) Go
14 1 (0.15%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 170 (25.80%) Azure Certification
2 76 (11.53%) Degree
3 39 (5.92%) CompTIA Security+
4 38 (5.77%) Cisco Certification
5 32 (4.86%) CEH
5 32 (4.86%) CompTIA CySA+
6 31 (4.70%) CCNA
7 30 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (4.10%) Network+ Certification
9 26 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (2.12%) Security Cleared
11 9 (1.37%) DBS Check
12 8 (1.21%) DV Cleared
12 8 (1.21%) SC Cleared
13 7 (1.06%) CCNP
14 5 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.76%) CISSP
15 3 (0.46%) A+ Certification
15 3 (0.46%) CCSK
15 3 (0.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.40%) QA
2 28 (4.25%) GDPR
3 26 (3.95%) SLA
4 21 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (2.73%) Data Quality
6 13 (1.97%) NIST
7 12 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (1.21%) NCSC
9 7 (1.06%) GRC
10 6 (0.91%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.91%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.76%) JSP 440
12 4 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 4 (0.61%) PMO
13 3 (0.46%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.15%) HL7
14 1 (0.15%) IFRS
14 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 144 (21.85%) Active Directory
2 39 (5.92%) Hyper-V
3 35 (5.31%) Docker
4 31 (4.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (2.43%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.30%) vSphere
9 1 (0.15%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 76 (11.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 41 (6.22%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.76%) Ansible
3 5 (0.76%) SCCM
4 3 (0.46%) Proxmox
4 3 (0.46%) ZABBIX
5 2 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.15%) Grafana
6 1 (0.15%) Nessus
6 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 467 (70.86%) Microsoft
2 88 (13.35%) ForeScout
3 49 (7.44%) Cisco
4 36 (5.46%) VMware
5 26 (3.95%) Apple
6 20 (3.03%) Google
7 16 (2.43%) Adobe
8 14 (2.12%) Meraki
9 13 (1.97%) Facebook
10 11 (1.67%) Veeam
11 10 (1.52%) Ubiquiti
12 9 (1.37%) Databricks
12 9 (1.37%) ServiceNow
13 7 (1.06%) Fortinet
13 7 (1.06%) SonicWALL
14 5 (0.76%) Sony
14 5 (0.76%) Sophos
14 5 (0.76%) Yahoo!
15 4 (0.61%) Acronis
15 4 (0.61%) Draytek